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- Recently in the speedrunning community, especially the Pokemon community, runners have branched out from popular categories -- such as any%, any% glitchless and 100% -- into less stressful and less optimized categories, which viewers often see as memes or "just for fun." This has resulted in many questions such as, "Is this an official/legit category?" It's not always clear what they're asking, but I think it's clear what they're seeking. They want to know whether the category is taken seriously, whether it has competition, and whether runs on PB/WR pace are anything to get excited about.
- (Important note: A run being on speedrun.com does not make it any more or less official. There is simply a strong correlation between what's considered "official" and what's on speedrun.com. There are some really silly meme runs on the site, and some major omissions.)
- So I've created a rating system, which I'll apply for every speedrun I've done or will do in the future. I'll rate a speedrun from 1 to 10 on how "official" it is. The higher the number, the more official. I'll use the following criteria, in order of importance:
- - Number of runners
- - How optimized the route is
- - Quality of the top runners
- - Overall quality of the runners
- - How seriously the runners take their runs (i.e., doing the fastest strats rather than just what's fun for them)
- - How much execution the run requires
- - How much routing the run requires
- - How arbitrary the goals of the category are ("beat the game" is much less arbitrary than "beat the game the same way Ash did in the anime")
- - How much dumb RNG the run has
- Here are my ratings for every Pokemon run I've done:
- - Red glitchless: 9
- - Red Classic: 7
- - Red Clefable%: 3
- - Red Charmander%: 3
- - Red NSC: 5
- - Red Baton Pass: 4
- - Yellow glitchless: 8
- - Yellow Classic: 7
- - Yellow Nidoqueen%: 3
- - Yellow Ash%: 3
- - Gold glitchless: 8
- - Gold Mareep%: 3
- - Crystal glitchless: 8
- - Crystal Classic: 6
- - Crystal Cyndaquil%: 3
- - Crystal Chikorita%: 3
- - Crystal Helper any%: 1 (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbOigmhfBMk)
- - Sapphire: 8
- - Emerald glitchless: 8
- - Emerald any%: 5
- - Emerald Torchic%: 3
- - Emerald Treecko%: 3
- - Emerald All Gold Symbols: 7
- - Fire Red any%: 7
- - Fire Red Charmander%: 5
- - Fire Red Bulbasaur%: 3
- - Fire Red Round 2: 7
- - Colosseum: 7
- - XD: 7
- - Trifecta (Red/Gold/Sapphire): 4
- - Crystal Clear any%: 5
- - Crystal Clear starter%: 5
- - Crystal Clear Igglybuff%: 2
- Here are my ratings for every non-Pokemon run I've done:
- - Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories: 6
- - Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories female%: 3
- - Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories sun chicken%: 2
- - Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories Pumpking%: 2
- - Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories: 5
- - Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (All Trials): 6
- - Grief Syndrome any% Madoka: 5
- - Grief Syndrome 1000 laps: 2
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